A report published by industry lobby group, CITB-Construction Skills, in January made grim reading. It summed up the scale of the continuing downturn in the construction sector over the past 12 months and predicted a ‘decade of pain’ going forward with no significant change in the industry’s fortunes until at least 2022.
According to the report, 60,000 construction related jobs were lost last year with output down by 9% thanks to a combination of cuts in public sector... Read More